Announcing the release of Alexandria 0.6.8 * What is Alexandria? ===================== Alexandria is an application for managing a personal book library. Its main recommending feature is its clean, intuitive interface. Alexandria is able to retrieve book information and cover images from a wide variety of online data sources. It also features extensive import and export options, a loan interface, and smart libraries. Alexandria is written in Ruby using ruby-gnome2. * Where can I get it? ===================== - A source package can be downloaded at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=205 - An ad-hoc deb file (for Debian, Ubuntu & gNewSense) can be downloaded from there too - For Ubuntu, there is a PPA at https://launchpad.net/~alexandria-team - SVN can be accessed here: http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/alexandria * What Was New in 0.6.7? ======================== - Added auto-completion for tags in Book Properties - Amazon queries now use a Associate Tag, a new requirement of Amazon's Product Advertising API. Thanks to Stephen McCamant for providing the patch. * What's New in 0.6.8? ====================== - Removed dependencies on deprecated Ruby/GNOME2 libraries, to get Alexandria working on Ubuntu 11.10. - Added dependencies on ruby-gst and ruby-goocanvas - Added Barcode Scanner tab to Preferences dialog Where can I find out more? ========================== * Website: http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/ * Screenshots/Screencast: http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/screenshots.html * Mailing List: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/alexandria-list/ * Bugs: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=205